CHICAGO -- Non-stop flights out of Lincoln are rare enough, but Nebraska's media day contingent seemingly had it made Thursday morning.

Mother Nature had other ideas.

Husker football coach Scott Frost, NU's three player representatives and a few others had their Silverhawk charter jet diverted from Chicago-Midway to Peoria, Illinois, due to storms, landing there shortly after 9 a.m.

"Our stomachs would kind of rise," Martinez said of flying through the storms. "Mo, not to make fun of him, but kind of to make fun of him a little bit, he was a little bit scared. We were laughing and Mo was gripping the chair.

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Parker joined the Journal Star as the University of Nebraska football beat writer in August 2017. He previously covered Montana State athletics for the Bozeman Daily Chronicle and graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 2012.

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